Melithreptus atricapillus submagnirostris Mathews

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 109

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scientific name	Melithreptus atricapillus submagnirostris Mathews
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Melithreptus atricapillus submagnirostris Mathews, 1912a: 393 (Victoria) .

Now Melithreptus brevirostris brevirostris (Vigors and Horsfield, 1827) View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 394, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 279–281, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 673–674.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 691663 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Ringwood , 37.51S, 145.13E (Times Atlas), Victoria, Australia, on 8 August 1908, by Thomas Tregellas (no. 313). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9463) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description, giving the range of submagnirostris as ‘‘ Victoria.’’ In addition to the original label, the holotype bears a Mathews and a Rothschild type label. The collector’s name does not appear on the original label, but it was cataloged as coming from Tregellas and the handwriting on the original label is his. There are three paratypes in AMNH: AMNH 691660 About AMNH (Mathews no. 4918), male, Frankston , 12 December 1908, by Tregellas ; AMNH 691661 About AMNH (4974), female, Frankston , 9 April 1909, by L.G. Chandler ; AMNH 691665 About AMNH (4917), female, Ringwood, 8 October 1908, by Tregellas. There are nine additional specimens from Victoria that were collected early enough but I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog and have no way of knowing when they came into his possession. They are possible paratypes: AMNH 691657 About AMNH , immature male, Mornington , 9 April 1909 ; AMNH 691658 About AMNH , 691659 About AMNH , males, Frankston , 5 April 1908 ; AMNH 691666 About AMNH , female, Ringwood , 8 August 1908 ; AMNH 691667 About AMNH , 691668 About AMNH , females, Underbool, 13 September 1910 (both also possible paratypes of mallee, see below) ; AMNH 691680 About AMNH , female, Eltham , 26 July 1902 ; AMNH 691684 About AMNH , 691685 About AMNH , females, You Yangs , 31 October 1908 .